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Family

Family. The family is the primary and the most powerful system to which humans ever belong. Family interactions and relationships tend to be highly reciprocal, patterned, and repetitive. Recognizing patterns today can keep you from repeating them tomorrow. Why are we talking about family?.

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  1. Family The family is the primary and the most powerful system to which humans ever belong. Family interactions and relationships tend to be highly reciprocal, patterned, and repetitive. Recognizing patterns today can keep you from repeating them tomorrow.

  2. Why are we talking about family? • Raise awareness of patterns • Show how important your decisions are on your future family • Help you understand that your not alone • Challenge you to be better than your situation

  3. Every day Behaviors in America • 1,000 unwed teenage girls become mothers • 1,106 teenage girls get abortions • 4,219 teenagers contract an STD • 500 adolescents begin using drugs • 1,000 adolescents begin drinking alcohol • 135,000 kids bring a weapon to school • 3,610 teens are assaulted; 80 are raped • 7 kids are murdered • 6 teens commit suicide • WHY ARE THESE BEHAVIORS INCREASING?

  4. Behavior Values Beliefs Relationships

  5. Family Relationships Build and maintain relationships Provide food and shelter Make sure everybody has a purpose Nurture physically, socially, and emotionally Love / Encourage / Discipline Set expectations Protect Teach Values

  6. Traditional * 2 biological parents Single Parent Step families Adoptive families No family 42 % of children aged 14 to18 live in a "first marriage" family 21 % of teenage children live with a single parent who is divorced or separated 22 % live in a two-parent household with one stepparent. Remaining teenagers live with: never-married single parent (6 %) widowed single parent (3 %) cohabiting adults (6 %) What are the different types of families?

  7. Current Divorce Rate • The divorce rate in America for first marriage, vs second or third marriage50% percent of first marriages, 67% of second and 74% of third marriages end in divorce, according to Jennifer Baker of the Forest Institute of Professional Psychology in Springfield, Missouri.”

  8. How does Divorce affect children? • Children experience reactions ranging from anger, fear, and sadness to yearning, worry, rejection, conflicting loyalties, anger, lowered self-confidence, heightened anxiety and loneliness, more depressed moods, more suicidal thoughts, and even more attempts to commit suicide. • Many of these feelings persist for years. For example: • A major national survey of 20,000 adolescents found that the adolescent children of divorced parents did worse than their peers from intact families on such measures of satisfaction with life as happiness, sense of personal control, trust, and friendship.

  9. Divorce and Crime • A study of 171 U.S. cities with populations of over 100,000 showed that the lower the rates of divorce, the lower the crime rate • Data from Wisconsin illustrates that the rates of incarceration for its juvenile delinquents are 12 times higher for children of divorce than for children living with married parents. • A recent U.S. study which tracked over 6,400 boys over 20 years found that children without biological fathers in the home are roughly 3 times more likely to commit a crime that leads to incarceration than are children from intact families.

  10. Child Abuse and Divorce • Adults who were sexually abused as children are more likely to have been raised in stepfamilies than in intact married families. • The rate of sexual abuse of girls by their stepfathers may be as much as 40 times greater, than sexual abuse of daughters by their biological fathers who remain in intact families. • Stepparents have a difficult time establishing close bonds with their stepchildren-. • One study found that only 53 percent of stepfathers and 25 percent of stepmothers have "parental feelings" toward their stepchildren, and still fewer report having "love" for them.

  11. Divorce and Addiction • Children who use drugs and abuse alcohol are more likely to come from family backgrounds with parental conflict and parental rejection. Because divorce increases these factors, it increases the likelihood that children will abuse alcohol and begin using drugs. • Adolescents whose parents recently divorced are found to abuse drugs and alcohol much more often than do adolescents whose parents divorced during their early childhood. • Comparing all family structures, drug use in children is lowest in the intact married family.

  12. Divorce and Graduation Rates • High school dropout rates are much higher among children of divorced parents than among children of always-married parents.. • Schools expel as many as one in four stepchildren • Children raised in intact families complete more total years of education and have higher earnings than children from other family structures. • The college attendance rate is about 60 percent lower among children of divorced parents compared with children of intact families.

  13. Increasing Rates of Suicide • Higher divorce rates in a society lead to higher suicide rates among children. As the work of Patricia McCall, a sociology professor at North Carolina State University, shows, the most frequent background characteristic among adolescents who commit suicide is the divorce of their parents.

  14. Divorce and Health • A study of 1,337 medical doctors who graduated from John Hopkins University found that lack of closeness with parents was the common factor in hypertension, coronary heart disease, malignant tumors, mental illness, and suicide. • Study of 39 teenage girls with anorexia nervosa showed that 36 of them had one thing in common: lack of a close relationship with their father

  15. The Father Factor • Recent research found that an emotionally or physically absent father contributes to a child’s: • low motivation for achievement • inability to defer immediate gratification • low self-esteem • susceptibility to group influence and to juvenile delinquency

  16. Divorce affects on Future Relationships • Dating / Marriage • Higher levels of distrust • Don’t want serious relationship • More prone to break-ups • John Hopkins University found that “young, white teenage girls living in fatherless families were 60% more likely to have premarital sex then those living in 2 parent homes.” • More likely to get divorced or separated • Those who can learn from parents mistakes are the strongest, most loyal spouses

  17. Are you going to live in your past or start living for your future? “People are just about as happy as they make their minds up to be.” Abe Lincoln

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